I was excited to replay this game with this PC port, and while this is certainly a step up from the Xbox 360 original due to supporting higher framerates and the option to play with keyboard and mouse, it is an extremely minimal port that sacrifices presentation by making little effort to account for the difference in platform. This is evident before you even start the game: rather than changing options in-game, it uses a dated external configuration menu. The configuration menu itself is ugly: text overlaps with the options.

In-game, there are still remnants of the console-only nature of the game that could have been easily fixed, but they didn't bother. The most obvious being the weapon wheel still shows Xbox 360 button prompts. The in-game key configuration (which does, at least, exist, thankfully) even marks those actions as "X" "A" and "B". Obvious presentation flaws exist here, too, with at least one instance of text overflowing out of the box it's supposed to be contained in.

Particularly egregious for me, personally, is a lack of options for voice language track. Though the game did have a Japanese dub in the Japanese release of the 360 version, the Western release of the game was English-only. This PC port was an opportunity for them to fix this oversight and let Western players choose their dub, but only the English audio is included. Even if you set the language to Japanese in the configuration menu, this only effects text. Giving players the ability to play the game in any language it exists in, regardless of where they live, should be a standard. Even NINTENDO sees the value in worldwide language accessibility now! It shows how little thought was put in to make this port accessible to a modern audience.

Of important note is the fact this game was never very good in the first place: it's a generic third-person shooter with overly gigantic, unused environments whose only real point of interest is its post-apocalyptic aesthetic and the broomstick boomstick. It's a fun, but deeply flawed game, and I'd commend the effort to give it decent representation on PC... but they just HAVEN'T given it decent representation. The only improvements are the improved framerate and additional control scheme. In all other aspects, the game is just as bad as it always was, and in the presentation department, it's far, far worse.

I was excited to replay this game with this PC port, and while this is certainly a step up from the Xbox 360 original due to supporting higher framerates and the option to play with keyboard and mouse, it is an extremely minimal port that sacrifices presentation by making little effort to account for the difference in platform. This is evident before you even start the game: rather than changing options in-game, it uses a dated external configuration menu. The configuration menu itself is ugly: text overlaps with the options. In-game, there are still remnants of the console-only nature of the game that could have been easily fixed, but they didn't bother. The most obvious being the weapon wheel still shows Xbox 360 button prompts. The in-game key configuration (which does, at least, exist, thankfully) even marks those actions as "X" "A" and "B". Obvious presentation flaws exist here, too, with at least one instance of text overflowing out of the box it's supposed to be contained in. Particularly egregious for me, personally, is a lack of options for voice language track. Though the game did have a Japanese dub in the Japanese release of the 360 version, the Western release of the game was English-only. This PC port was an opportunity for them to fix this oversight and let Western players choose their dub, but only the English audio is included. Even if you set the language to Japanese in the configuration menu, this only effects text. Giving players the ability to play the game in any language it exists in, regardless of where they live, should be a standard. Even NINTENDO sees the value in worldwide language accessibility now! It shows how little thought was put in to make this port accessible to a modern audience. Of important note is the fact this game was never very good in the first place: it's a generic third-person shooter with overly gigantic, unused environments whose only real point of interest is its post-apocalyptic aesthetic and the broomstick boomstick. It's a fun, but deeply flawed game, and I'd commend the effort to give it decent representation on PC... but they just HAVEN'T given it decent representation. The only improvements are the improved framerate and additional control scheme. In all other aspects, the game is just as bad as it always was, and in the presentation department, it's far, far worse.